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Margaret Atwood
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: November 18
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Novelist
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Ottawa (Ontario)
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
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No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.
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All writers must go from now to once a upon a time all must go from here to there all must descend to where the stories are kept all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
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Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
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He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
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Moira was like an elevator with open sides. She made us dizzy.
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Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?
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The act of making a photograph is less a question of what is being looked at than how.
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Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
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I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey it seemed unfair to me, even then.
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My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a 22, for instance, and not very good with an ax. It took me a long time to figure out that the youngest in a family of dragons is still a dragon from the point of view of those who find dragons alarming.
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he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.
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You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.
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The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.)
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Support your libraries... or else!
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It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy.
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As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.
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You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.
Margaret Atwood